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Philosophy of science : an anthology / edited by Marc Lange.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell philosophy anthologies ; 25.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006Description: xiv, 649 pISBN:
  • 1405130334 (acidfree paper)
  • 1405130342 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 22
LOC classification:
  • Q175 .P5123 2006
Contents:
1. Empiricist criteria of cognitive significance : problems and changes / Carl G. Hempel -- 2. Studies in the logic of confirmation / Carl G. Hempel -- 3. Confirmation and relevance / Wesley C. Salmon -- 4. The new riddle of induction / Nelson Goodman -- 5. Explanations, tests, unity, and necessity / Clark Glymour -- 6. Rationality and objectivity in science (or : Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes) / Wesley C. Salmon -- 7. Let's Razor Ockham's Razor / Elliott Sober -- 8. Foundational physics and empiricist critique / Lawrence Sklar -- 9. Darwin's achievement / Philip Kitcher -- 10. Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice / Thomas S. Kuhn -- 11. The theoretician's dilemma / Carl G. Hempel -- 12 (a). Phenomenalism / Wilfrid F. Sellars -- 12 (b). The language of theories / Wilfrid F. Sellars -- 13 (a). Arguments concerning scientific realism / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- 13 (b). To save the phenomena / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- 14. Empirical equivalence and underdetermination / Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin -- 15. Structural realism : the best of both worlds? / John Worrall -- 16. Extragalactic reality : the case of gravitational lensing / Ian Hacking -- 17. Laws and their role in scientific explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- 18 (a). The laws of nature / David Lewis -- 18 (b). Humean supervenience / David Lewis -- 19. Laws of nature / Fred I. Dretske -- 20. The evolutionary contingency thesis / John Beatty -- 21. Who's afraid of Ceteris-Paribus laws? : (or : how I learned to stop worrying and love them) / Marc Lange -- 22. A tradition of natural kinds / Ian Hacking -- 23. Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober -- 24. Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa / Richard Boyd -- 25. Some puzzles about species / Philip Kitcher -- 26. Special sciences (or : the disunity of science as a working hypothesis) / Jerry A. Fodor -- 27. Causation and recipes / Douglas Gasking -- 28. Causation as influence / David Lewis -- 29. Causation and the flow of energy / David Fair -- 30. Probabilistic causality / Wesley C. Salmon -- 31. Causal laws and effective strategies / Nancy Cartwright -- 32. The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John Beatty -- 33. A subjectivist's guide to objective chance / David Lewis -- 34. On Einstein-Minkowski space-time / Howard Stein -- 35. What price spacetime substantivalism? : the hole story / John Earman and John Norton -- 36. The genidentity of quantum particles / Hans Reichenbach -- 37. Is the moon there when nobody looks? : reality and the quantum theory / N. David Mermin -- 38. Part and whole in quantum mechanics / Tim Maudlin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Empiricist criteria of cognitive significance : problems and changes / Carl G. Hempel -- 2. Studies in the logic of confirmation / Carl G. Hempel -- 3. Confirmation and relevance / Wesley C. Salmon -- 4. The new riddle of induction / Nelson Goodman -- 5. Explanations, tests, unity, and necessity / Clark Glymour -- 6. Rationality and objectivity in science (or : Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes) / Wesley C. Salmon -- 7. Let's Razor Ockham's Razor / Elliott Sober -- 8. Foundational physics and empiricist critique / Lawrence Sklar -- 9. Darwin's achievement / Philip Kitcher -- 10. Objectivity, value judgment, and theory choice / Thomas S. Kuhn -- 11. The theoretician's dilemma / Carl G. Hempel -- 12 (a). Phenomenalism / Wilfrid F. Sellars -- 12 (b). The language of theories / Wilfrid F. Sellars -- 13 (a). Arguments concerning scientific realism / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- 13 (b). To save the phenomena / Bas C. Van Fraassen -- 14. Empirical equivalence and underdetermination / Larry Laudan and Jarrett Leplin -- 15. Structural realism : the best of both worlds? / John Worrall -- 16. Extragalactic reality : the case of gravitational lensing / Ian Hacking -- 17. Laws and their role in scientific explanation / Carl G. Hempel -- 18 (a). The laws of nature / David Lewis -- 18 (b). Humean supervenience / David Lewis -- 19. Laws of nature / Fred I. Dretske -- 20. The evolutionary contingency thesis / John Beatty -- 21. Who's afraid of Ceteris-Paribus laws? : (or : how I learned to stop worrying and love them) / Marc Lange -- 22. A tradition of natural kinds / Ian Hacking -- 23. Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober -- 24. Homeostasis, species, and higher taxa / Richard Boyd -- 25. Some puzzles about species / Philip Kitcher -- 26. Special sciences (or : the disunity of science as a working hypothesis) / Jerry A. Fodor -- 27. Causation and recipes / Douglas Gasking -- 28. Causation as influence / David Lewis -- 29. Causation and the flow of energy / David Fair -- 30. Probabilistic causality / Wesley C. Salmon -- 31. Causal laws and effective strategies / Nancy Cartwright -- 32. The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John Beatty -- 33. A subjectivist's guide to objective chance / David Lewis -- 34. On Einstein-Minkowski space-time / Howard Stein -- 35. What price spacetime substantivalism? : the hole story / John Earman and John Norton -- 36. The genidentity of quantum particles / Hans Reichenbach -- 37. Is the moon there when nobody looks? : reality and the quantum theory / N. David Mermin -- 38. Part and whole in quantum mechanics / Tim Maudlin.

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